Emily Maitlis stalker Edward Vines 'wanted to be charged'
A man who stalked broadcaster Emily Maitlis has told a court he wrote and posted more letters to her from jail knowing they would be intercepted.
He told Nottingham Crown Court he wanted to be charged and given the opportunity to tell a jury he had a reasonable excuse to speak to her.The court previously heard the defendant has had a 30-year "fixation" with the former BBC Newsnight presenter since the pair met at the University of Cambridge. Giving evidence and representing himself in court on Friday, Vines said: "I discovered the motion says you are breaching the order 'without a reasonable excuse'."I wondered if I could persuade 12 members of the public that maybe I had a right to write to them as I was wrongly convicted."I did not intend for the letters to arrive with Emily."
When asked by prosecutor Ian Way what his purpose of writing the letters to Ms Maitlis and her mother was, he said: "One thing is what happened between me and Emily at university all those years ago."Nobody else will listen, nobody would take my side and I believe that 12 members of the public might."Explaining why he believed he had a reasonable excuse to breach his restraining order, Vines told jurors: "So I could persuade a jury...
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